Gorringe's Spring Fine Sale 14th March 2023

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Lot 14
° Lionel Jeffries (1926-2010) - Screenplay, 1st
draft, as screenwriter and director of ‘’The
Railway Children, of his adaptation from the
original novel by E. Nesbit, dated June, 1968,
annotated and corrected by Jeffries in black
ink and pencil, 139 numbered pages, folio, (33
x 20cms), within a black sprung-hinged binder, the inner
board with the director’s bold signature in felt pen, with an
inserted pictorial title page, depicting a sketch of ‘’Bobbie’’,
the inner back board with a sketch of ‘’Peter’’, both by Jeffries
and a handwritten note suggesting an early idea of music
by Jake Thackray. Together with a partially filled scrapbook
of newspaper cuttings relating to the film, a programme for
the Royal Charity Matinee, at the ABC cinema Shaftesbury
Avenue, on 22nd December, 1970, his personal white label
‘’for approval’’ copies of The Railway Children studio 2 LP set,
with narration by Jeffries, dated 30th November, 1970 and two
EMI The Railway Children LP’S., Together with - The Railway
Children, 1970 - Thirty seven black and white images, most
previously unpublished, showing members of the cast between
takes, consisting of twenty-eight images 38 x 20cms; seven
images 28 x 35cms. and two images 21 x 25cms; The images
principally taken by Ronnie Pilgrim (1913-2003), (official stills
cameraman) with others by Brian Duff (1929-2007) etc., The
images principally depict Jenny Agutter, Gary Warren, Sally
Thompsett and Lionel Jeffries.
Provenance: Lionel Jeffries (1926-2010) - all items from the
personal collection of his son, Ty Jeffries.
£3,000 - 5,000
Lot 15
Lionel Jeffries (1926-2010) - a collection of 88
mainly black and white photographs of stills of
Jeffries, from the films and filming of the actor/
director, including:- ‘’The Truth About Spring”, 1965, (2);
‘’Murder Ahoy’’, 1964, (8); ‘’The Revenge of Frankenstein’’,
1958, (2); ‘’Jazz Boat’’, 1960, (10); ‘’The Spy with the Cold
Nose”, 1966, (7); ‘’Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’’, 1968, (10); ‘’First
Man in the Moon’’, 1964, (19); ‘’You Must be Joking’’, 1965,
(2); ‘’Windfall’’, 1961, (4); ‘’The Hellions’’, 1961, (5); ‘’Two Way
Stretch’’, 1960, (16); ‘’The Trials of Oscar Wilde, 1960, (3)
Provenance: Lionel Jeffries (1926-2010) - all items from the
personal collection of his son, Ty Jeffries.
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£100 - 150